Reddit is asking for Europe to deem it a very large platform now that it's gatekeeping like this
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Ok so they are earning on our data
You just described every company
Honestly? I'd be happy to not see their trash in any search engine I use.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filter/
Install this and exclude it from all search results.
This one works better: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/ - more supported sites, and it doesn't break as often.
Couldn't a search engine just aggregate the result from Google, filter the Reddit responses, and then add those results to their own organic results?
I'm kind of curious to understand how they're blocking other search engines. I was under the impression that search engines just viewed the same pages we do to search through, and the only way to 'hide' things from them was to not have them publicly available. Is this something that other search engines could choose to circumvent if they decided to?